Updates in the world of Commercial Real Estate
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. On a summer day last year, a group of real estate tech executives gathered at a conference hall in Nashville to boast about one of their company’s signature products: software that uses a mysterious algorithm […]
FRANKFURT—The world’s central banks face a nail-biting wait. They have raised interest rates this year at the fastest pace in decades. But those hikes work with what economists call “long and variable” lags so central banks might not know for years if they have tightened too much, or not enough. Why the lag? Interest-rate changes filter through […]
Inflation and fast-rising interest rates are taking their toll on commercial real estate transactions in Greater Boston. Real estate investors bought $4.6 billion in commercial properties in the Boston metro area in the third quarter, a 27% decline from the same three-month period in 2021, according to new data from MSCI Real Assets. It’s only […]
Demand from life sciences tenants in search of lab space in New York City remained robust in the third quarter as premium product became available, CBRE reported. During Q3, demand for space reached 2.1 million square feet, while new lab space under construction or redevelopment totaled 866,013 square feet. Three of the four projects underway are […]
Cambridge, MA – Construction is underway for 605 Concord, a mixed-use transit-oriented development that will deliver 49 apartment units above 2,500 square feet of street-level retail space to the Fresh Pond neighborhood. The construction manager is Needham, MA-based Nauset Construction, and the developer is Acorn Holdings LLC. The development is conveniently located near public outdoor […]
Cheap debt fueled a decadelong boom in U.S. office values, offsetting the impact of years of rent increases that didn’t keep pace with inflation. Now that the long period of easy credit is over, office-building owners are bracing to see how much less their properties are actually worth. The prices of some aging office towers […]
Some were booming before the Covid-19 pandemic hit. Others shot up in popularity arguably because of the pandemic. A few have been slow-but-steady-growth markets for some time. The national housing market slowdown has been one of the headlining stories of 2022, after a spike in mortgage rates in the spring turned the heat off what […]
Boston, MA Breakthrough Properties (Breakthrough), a leading global developer of life sciences real estate, celebrated the completion and grand opening of The 105 by Breakthrough (The 105) in collaboration with CRISPR Therapeutics. The new facility is fully leased to CRISPR Therapeutics and will serve as its new U.S. research & development headquarters. Located in one of […]
As U.S., like the rest of the world, continues to grapple with stubborn inflation (at 8.2 percent in September), there are worries that consumer spending is going to falter and impact industrial owners’ ability to raise rents. Industry insiders, however, say such fears are over-stated. At the moment, industrial real estate fundamentals remain strong and […]
Dell has too many computers. Nike is swimming in summer clothes. And Gap is flooded with basics like T-shirts and shorts. After struggling with product shortages for much of the pandemic, the country’s retailers are now facing the opposite problem: an unprecedented glut of unsold merchandise that’s cutting into profits, derailing holiday plans and threatening […]
